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• '4>.ft' v4V-.<* IUHENRY PLAINDEALEK, M'HENRY, ILL. BWWWWWfifSWRWS!^ The Exploits 6f Elaine ^^$& ti0 * Niwei and a Motim Picture §S^Hm,- '*"<•'By ARTHUR B. REEVE IMM TheWeH-Knowo Notebl and the Creator of the *^aig Kennedy"Slams Pre--nted in Collaboration With the Pathe Ph|tn I Ike Eclectic Film Company Copyright. 1914. by the Stir Company AH Fortisn rtijjhts Restrve.1 i SYNOPSI8, The New Tork police are mystified by a pedes of murders and other crimes. The •rincipal clue to the criminal is the warn- Rg letter which Is sent the victims, signed With a "clutching hand." The latest vic­ tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor l>odge, the insurance president. Hi» daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy, the famous scientific detective, to try to «jnravel the mystery. What Kennedy ac­ complishes is told by his Triend Jameson, a newspaper man. Enraged at the deter­ mined effort which Elaine and Craig Ken­ nedy are making to put an end to his crimes, the Clutching Hand, as thin Btrange criminal is known, resorts to all ^prts oi the most diabolical schemes to pufrthem out of the way. Each chapter Of the atory tells of a new plot against their lives and of the way the great de- s tectlve uses all his skill to save this pret- . .ty girl and himself from death. TWELFTH EPISODE THE QLOOD CRYSTALS. "On your right is ̂ the residence of Kiss Elaine Dodge, who is pursuing the famous master criminal known as the Clutching Hand." The barber had been grandiloquent­ ly pointing out the residences of noted New Yorkers as the big sight-seeing car lumbered along through the streets. No one had paid any attention to the unobtrusive Chinaman who sat in­ conspicuously in the middle of the car. Be was Mr. Wong Long Sin, but no tine feaw anything particularly mys­ terious about an Oriental visitor, more or less, viewing New York city. Wong was of the mandarin type, With long, drooping mustache, well dressed in American clothes, and con­ forming to the new customs of an Oc­ cident alized China. Anyone, however, who had been watching Long Sin would have seen that he showed much interest when­ ever tiny of the wealthy residents of fbe city were mentioned. The name Elaine Dodge seemed particularly f|> stride him. He listened with subtle lute rent to what the barker said and ^looked keenly at the Dodge house. The sight-seeing car had passed the it2>' 's- 'Bonne, when he rose slowly and mo- *ttoned that he wanted to be let off. The car stopped, he alighted and Blow­ er rambled away, evidently marveling gjreatly at the strange customs of these • ^pncout'ji Westerners. r " Elaine was going out when she met •^erry Bennett almost on the steps of /%he house. Mi' '• "I've brought you the watch," re- r j / * - jnarked Bennett. "Thought I'd like to &;p^,':^^ive it to you myself." ft - " He displayed the watch which he te-,» himself had bought a couple of days - 1 ^ "Ifefore for her birthday. He had called " * Ifer it himself at the jeweler's, where it lli *llad now been regulated. ,... n'£' V '• VH , '< > I#* I "Oh, thank you," exclaimed Elaine. * Won't you come in?" f' • V They had scarcely greeted each other f -/",:- \%hen Long Sin strolled along. Neither ^ .»f them, however, had time to notice 5 l,'3 <iie quiet Chinaman who passed the fcouse, looking at Elaine sharply out of v $ie corner of his eye. They entered -J|nd Wong disappeared down the treet. "Isn't tt a beauty?" cried Elaine. : ' folding It out from her as they entered <fae library, and examining it with / ifreat appreciation. "And, oh, do you Know, the strangest thing happened yesterday! Sometimes Mr. Kennedy -acts too queerly for anything." •?.She related how Craig bad burst in £ v her and Aunt Josephine and had v' vJilmost torn the other watch off her '"^|r rist. . "Another watch?" repeated Bennett, " ^ Vmazed. "It must have beat a. mis- ' lake. Kennedy is crazy." % - "I don't umiferstaj^ it, myself,7 pipr* J,-\£«mred Elaine. * "" ^ ' • • • • • ' * « • Long Sin was revolving some dark and devious plan beneath his impas- •ive Oriental countenance. He was n/o u binary personage. In fact, he was ji j - *stute enough to have no recoi d. He ^"1ef^ that to his tools. i This remarkable criminal had estab- : lished himself in a hired apartment down town. *. Long Sin, now In rich Oriental cos­ tume, was reclining on a divan smok­ ing a strange-looking pipe and playing with two pet white rats. Each white rat had a .gold band around his leg, to which was connected a gold chain about a foot in length, and the chains ended in rings which were slipped over Wong's little fingers. Ordinarily he carried the pets up the capacious sleeve of each arm. A little Chinese girl, also in native costume, entered and bowed deferen­ tially. "A Miss Mary Carson," she lisped in soft English. "Let the lady enter," waved Long Sin, with a smile of subtle satisfaction. The girl bowed again and silently left the room, returning with a hand- 80me' very weil dressed white woman. !&. ^ wou*d be difficult to analyze Just .^':f:^wbat the fascination was that Long i 8in exerclsed over Mary Carson. But ££/' V'-, as the servant left the room, Mary bowed almost as deferentially as the little Chinese girl. Wong merely nod­ ded in reply. After a moment he siowly rose and took from a drawer a newspaper clip^ ping. Without a word he handed it to Mary. She looked at it with interest, as one woman always does at the pic­ ture of another pretty woman. It was a newspaper cut of Elaine, tinder which was: "ELAINE DODGE, THE HEIR­ ESS, WHOSE BATTLE WITH THE CLUTCHING HAND jS CRE­ ATING WORLD-WIDE INTER­ EST." "Now," he began at last, breaking the silence, "I'll show you just what I want you to do." He went over to the wall and took down a curioua long Chinese knife from a scabbard which hung there conspicuously. "See that?" he added, holding it up. Before she could say a word he had plunged the knife, apparently, Into his own breast. "Oh!" cried Mary, startled. She expected to see him fall. Dnt nothing happened. Wong laughed. It was an oriental trick knife, in whlcfi the blade telescoped into the handle. "Look at it," he added, handing it to her. Long Sin took a bladder of water from a table near by and concealed it under his coat. "Now, you stab me," he directed. Mary hesitated. But he repeated the command and she plunged the knife gingerly at him. It telescoped. He made her try it over, and she stabbed him more resolutely. The water-from the bladder poured out. "Good!" cried Long Sin, much pleased. "Now," he added, seating himself beside her, "I want you to lore Elaine here." • • e ' • I had been amusing1 myeelf by fig­ ging up avcontrivance by which I could make it possible to see through, or, rather, over, a door. Kennedy, who had been busy at the other end of the laboratory, happened to look over in my direction. '•What's the big idea, Walter?" he asked. It was, I admit, a rather cumber­ some and clumsy affair. "Well, you see, Craig," I explained, "you put the top mirror through the transom of a door and-r:". Kennedy interrupted with a liearty burst of laughter. "But suppose the door has no transom?" he asked, pointing to his own door. I scratched my head thoughtfully. I had assumed that the door would have a transom. A moment later Craig went to the cabinet and drew out a tube about as big around as a putty blower and as long. "Now, here's what I call my de- tectascope," he remarked. "None of your mirrors for me." "I know," I said somewhat nettled, "but what can you see through that S$?V 0* PM [.<W* '9&. J- ivjk :K. Wr *; J»sc. Elaine l ook Out the Package of Bills- putty blower? A keyhole la just as good." "Do you realize how little you can really see through a keyhole?" he re­ plied confidently. "Try it over there.1 I did, and, to tell the truth, I could see merely a little part of the hall. Then Kennedy inserted the detecta- scope. "Look through that," he directed. I put my eye to the eye piece and gazed through the bulging lens of the other end. J^jiould see almost the whole hall. • • ' • •' ' + Elaine was playing with Rusty when Jennings brought in a card on which was engraved the name, "Miss Mary Carson," and underneath in pencil was written "Belgian Relief Committee." "How interesting," commented Elaine, rising and accompanying Jen­ nings into the drawing room. "I won­ der what she wants?" "Very pleased to greet you, Miss Gar- son," she greeted her visitor. **You see, Miss Dodge," began Mary, "We're getting up this movement to help the Belgians and we have splen­ did backing. Just let me show you some of the names on our copmit- tee." • v;: She handed Elaine a list. "I've just been sent to see if I can­ not persuade you to join the commit­ tee and attend a meeting at Mrs, Rlv- erton's," she went on. **Why--er," considered Elaine, thoughtfully, "er~-yes. It must be all right with such people in it." "Can you go down with me now?" "Just as weil as later," agreed Elaine. They went out together, and as they were leaving the house a man who had been loitering outside looked at Elaine, then fixedly at her compan­ ion. No soon&r had they gone than he sped off to a car waiting around the corner. In the dark depths was a sin­ ister figure, the master criminal.him­ self. The watcher had been an em­ issary of the Clutching Hand. "Chief," he whispered eagerly, "you know Adventurous Mary? Well, she's got Elaine Dodge in tow!" "The deuce!" cried Clutching Hand. "Then we must teach -Mary Carson, or whoever she is working for, a les­ son. No one shall interfere with our affairs. Follow them!" • 9 . • • • * • Elaine and Mary had gone down­ town, talking animatedly--walking down the avenue toward Mrs. Riving- ton's apartment. » Meanwhile, Wong Sin, still In his Chinese costume, was explaining .to another male servant just what he wished done, pointing out the dagger on the wall and placing the bladder under his jacket. A box of opium was on the table, and he was giv­ ing most explicit directions. It was into such a web that Elaine was be­ ing unwittinly led by Mary. Entering the hallway of the apart­ ment, Mary rang the bell. The servant opened the door ahd Elaine and Mary entered. He closed- the door and almost before they knew it was gone into the back rdom. Elaine gazed about it in trepdiatlon. But before she could say anything, Mary, with a great show of surprise, exclaimed. "Why, I must have made mistake. This isn't Mrs. Riving- ton's apartment. How stupid of me." They looked at each other^ a mo­ ment. Then each laughed nervously, as together they started to go out of the door, tt ^vaa lucked! Quickly they ran to another door. It was locked also. Just then the Chinaman entered and stood a moment gazing at them. They turned and Elaine recoiled from him. Wong bowed. Oh, sir," cried Mary, "we've made a mistake. Can't yon tell us how to get out?" No speke Englta," he said, ' glid­ ing out again from tbs room and closing the door. Elaine and Mary looked about in despair. "What shall we do?" asked Elaine. Mary said nothing, but with a hasty glance discovered on the wall the knife which Wong had already told her about. She took it from its scab­ bard. As she did so the Chinaman re­ turned with a tray on which were queer drinks and glasses. At the sight of Mary with the knife he scowled blackly, laid down the tray, and took a few steps in her di­ rection. She brandished the knife threateningly; then, as if her nerve failed her, fainted, letting the knife fall carefully on the floor so that it struck on the handle, and not on the blade. Wong quickly caught her as, she fainted and carrying her out of the room, banged shut the door. Elaine followed in a moment, loyally to pro­ tect her supposed friend, but found that the door htSd a snap lock on the other side. She looked about wildly, and in a moment Wong reappeared. As he ad­ vanced slowly and insinuatingly, she drew back, pleading. But her words fell on seemingly deaf ears. She had picked up the knife which Mary had dropped, and when at last Wong maneuvered to get her cornered and was about to seize her, she nerved herself up and stabbed at him reso­ lutely. Wong staggered back--and fell. As he did so, he pressed tfio bladder which he had already placed under hiB coat. A dark red fluid, like blood, oozed out all over him and ran in a pool on the floor. Elaine, too horror-stricken at what had happened even to scream, dropped the knife and bent over him. He did not move. She rose quickly and ran through. the now open door. As she did BO, Wong seemed suddenly to come to life. He raised himself and looked after her, then with a subtle Bmile sank back into his former assumed posture on the floor. •>- When Elaine reached the othen room she found Mary there with the Chi nese servant who was giving her a glass of water. At the sight of her, the servant paused, then withdrew in. to another room farther back. Mary, now apparently recovering from her faintness, smiled wanly at Elaine. "It's all right," she murmured. "He is a Chinese prince who thought we were callers." At the reassuring nod of Mary to­ ward the fruit room, Elaine was over­ come. "I--I killed him!" she managed to gasp. "What?" cried Mary, starting up and trembling riolently. "You killed him--" "Yes," Bobbed s Elaia*. "He cam* at me--had the knife---I struck at htm.--" The two girls ran into the other room. There Maty looked at the mo­ tionless body on the floor and recoiled, horrified. % Elaine noticed some spots on her hands, and, seeing that they were stained by the blood of* Long Sin, .wiped the spots off on her handker­ chief, dropping it to the floor, v "Ugh!" exclaimed a guttuiriT vote* behind them. It was the servant who bad come in. "Yon--kill him--with knife?'; insin­ uated the Chinese. Elaine was dumb. The servant did not wait for an answer, but hastily opened the hall door. To Elaine it seemed that something nutat be done quickly. A moment and all the house would be in uproar. Instead, he placed his finger on his lips. "Quick---no word," he said, lead­ ing the way to the hall door, "and--oh, you must not leave that--It will be a clue," he added, picking up the bloody handkerchief and pressing it Into Elaine's hand. They quickly ran out into the hall, "Go--quick!" he urged again, "and hide the handkerchief in the bag. Let no one see it!" He shut the door. AB they hurried away Elaine breathed a sigh of relief. They had reached the street. Afraid to run, they hurried as fast as they Could until they turned the first cor­ ner. • ' ' ; . ' * They pressed each other's hands and parted. Meanwhile in the front room Long Sin was on bis feet again, brushing himself off and mopping up the blood. "It worked very well, Sam," he said to the servant. They were conversing eagerly and laughing and did not hear a noise in the back room, A sinister figure had made its way by means of a fire escape to a rear She opened the bag and displayed the blood-spotted handkerchief. He took it and examined it carefully. "Elaine," he said earnestly, not at all displeased I could see, that some­ thing had come up that might blot out the past unfortunate misunderstand­ ing, "there simply, must be something wrong here. Leave this handkerchief with me. I'll do my best," "Thank you," she said simply as she left the laboratory. Craig went to work abruptly without a word. , ° Oh thd laboratory table he placed his splendid microscope and several cases of slides, as well as innumerable mi­ cro-photographs. He had been work­ ing for some time when he looked up. "It is dog's blood--not human blood," he said simply, "but what's the game back of all thiB--that's the main ques­ tion now." ,* s» • • • * • It was not much later that Elaine received a second visit from Mary. "Do you know why the servant al­ lowed us to leave the apartment?" whispered Mary with a glance about fearfully, as if the walls had ears. "No--why?" inquired Elaine anxious- iy. •. " . "He's a tong man who has been chosen to do away with the prince. He followed me, and says you have done his work for him. If you will give him ten thousand dollars for ex­ penses he will attend to hiding the body." Here, at least,was a way out. "It is the safest way out of the trouble. Yes, I'll do it. I'll stop at the bank now and get the money." They rose and Mary preceded her, eager to get away from the house. At the door, however, Elaine asked her t6 wait while she ran back on some pretext. Our telephone rang in the middle Elaine, Too Horror-Stricken Even to ' Over window that was. not barred, and si­ lently he had stolen in on them. ' They turned at a slight noise and saw him. Genuine fright wad now on their faces as they looked at him, open mouthed. "What's all this?" he growled. "1 am known as the Clutching Hand. I allow no interference with iay affairs. Tell me what you are doing here with Elaine Dodge." •' Their beady almond eyos flashed fear. The Clutching Hand moved me­ nacingly. There was nothing for the astute Wong Long Sin to do but to submit. With a low'bow, Wong spread, out his handB in surrender and submission. "I will tell you, honorable sir," he said at length. "Go on!" growled the criminal. Quickly Wong rehearsed what had happened from the moment the idea of blackmail entered his head. "How about Mary Carson?" asked Clutching Hand. "I saw her here." Wong gave a glance of almost su­ perstitious dread at the man. "She will be back--is here now," he added, opening the door at a knock and admitting her. Adventuress Mary had hurried back to see that all was right. This time Mary was genuinely scared at the for­ bidding figure of which she had heard. "It is all right," pacified Wong. "Henceforth we work with the hon­ orable Clutching Hand." * • • • • • • At home at la^fc,' Elaine sank down ihto a deep library chair and stared straight ahead. She saw visions of arrest and trial, of the terrible elec­ tric chaiir vltth herself in it, bounds and of the giving of the fatal signal for turning on the current. Were such things as these going to happen to her, without Kennedy's help? Why had they quarreled? She buried her face in her hands and wept. Then she could stand it no longer. She had not taken off her street clothes. She rose and almost fled from the house. Kennedy and I were still in the la­ boratory when a knock sounded at the door. I went to the door and opened it. There stood Elaine Dodge. It was a complete surprise to Craig. . "What is the matter?" he asked. She hesitated, then suddenly burst out, "Craig--I--I am--a murderess!" I had never before seen such a look on Craig's face as suddenly came over it. Then she poured forth the story sub­ stantially as I have set it down, but without the explanation, whieh at that time was not known to any of us. "Oh," expostulated Craig, there must be some mistake. It's impossible--Im­ possible." "No,"- she asserted. "Look--here's I my handkerchief all spotted with i blood." INSPIRED BY FATHER RHINE I and victory in the Franco-German war. It was sung before the walls of f Great River Has Much to Do With In- 4sCHpatrlotlsn* Among* th* ,V-v ' ' 4 ' O e r m a n a . • ' V x . ; i>l« For generations past the Rhine has served to Inspire the Bplrit of patriot- ism among his German children, who love to call him "Father Rhine.*" % "Wacht am Rhine" was the great na- tional song which was sung with an extraordinary fervor by the German Paris in that great campaign which ended" in victory for the Prussian forces. And now that their country is faced with a greater peril than any shs has hitherto experienced, ine worda of that great war song, bring­ ing back memories of 1870, will be sung by millions of the kaiser's forces on land and sea. Truly the Rhine, is a fit subject for a national song, its banks were the scene of many of which took place between the Teu­ tonic hosts and the Romans, whose strongest bulwark it was; it was there the Gaul and Teuton struggled for supremacy in the generations that fol­ lowed. Flowing through a land ciotlieu with vineyards, that yield a wine which is famed the world over for its ex­ quisite bouquet and dry, piquant flavor, "Father Rhine" breathes a spirit of song and legend and romance. Ruined castles crown the rugged and fantas- waters, of a deep, transparent green hue, flow over the treasure of the Nlbelungs, surge round the rock Of the siren Lorelei, and are overlooked by the commanding statue of Ger- manla--the trophy of German victory in 1870. Except during the eighteenth ahd the greater part of the nineteenth centuries, it has always been a pure­ ly German river. It became part of the dividing lins between France and Germany in 1679, when Alsace-Lorraine was appropriated by France; in 1870 It was v/cn back by its children at soldiers alike in the hour of defeat ] the fierce battles for supremacy ^ tic craga that hem in its channels; Its Scream, Dropped thfc, Knife $md Bent Him. h - "' / " of our coshrenation <m' blood "crys­ tals, and Kennedy himself answered it. It was Elaine asking Craig's ad­ vice. "They have offered, to hush the thing up for ten thousand dollars," she said in a muffled voice. Slife seemed bent on doing it, sad no amount of argument from him could stop her. She simply refused to ac­ cept the evidence of the blood crys­ tals as better than what her own eyes told her she had seen and done. "Then wait for half an hour," he answered, without arguing further. "You can do that without exciting suspicion. Then go with her to her hotel and hand her over the money." "All right--I'll do it," she agreed. "What is the hotel?" Craig wrote on a slip of paper what she told him--"Room 509, Hotel La Coste." Hastily he threw on his street coat "Go into the back room and get me a brace and bit, Walter,' he said. I did so. When I returned I saw that he had placed the detectascope and some stuff in 9. bag. He shoved in the brace and bit also. "Come on--hurry!" he urged. We must have made record time in getting to the La Coste. It was an or­ nate place, where merely to breathe was expensive. "We entered, and by some excuse Kennedy contrived to get past the vigilant bell-hops. We passed the telephone switchboard and entered the elevator, getting off at the fifth floor. With a hasty glance up and down the corridor, to make sure no one was about, Kennedy came to Room 509, then passed to the next room, 511; opening the door with a skeleton key. Quickly Craig went to the door which led to the next rtom. It was, of course, locked also. He listened a moment carefully. Not a sound. Quick­ ly, with an exclamation of satisfac­ tion, he opened that door also and went into 509. This room was much like that In which we had already been. He opened the hall door. "Watch here, Walter," he directed. "Let me know at the slightest alarm." Craig had already taken the brace and bit from the bag and started to bore through the wall in Room 5X1, selecting a spot behind a picture of a Spanish dancer--a spot directly back of her snapping black eyes. H£ fin­ ished quickly and inserted the detectar scope so that the lens fitted as an eye In the picture. The eye-piece was in room 511. Then he started to bruBh up the pieces of plaster on the floor. "Craig," I whispered hastily as I heard an elevator door, "someone's coming!" He hurried to the door and looked. "There they &re," he said, as he saw Elaine and Mary rounding the corner of the hall. the point of the sword. It Is to the German race what the Thames is to the English" people. It is a means of livelihood, too, for it carries more than 2.000,000 tons of freightage a year, and is a symbol of national pros­ perity. ̂ •ympatiietic Willi* ,» . Willie's mother took him to a pic­ ture show one afternoon, and the lit* tie fellow took great Interest in a j comic picture, in which a hungry tramp who had stolen a pie was Across the hall, although we did not know it at the time, in room 540, al< ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta­ tion, just to be handy. There he had been with his servant, playing with his two trained white rats. Wong placed them up his capacious sleeves and carefully opened the door to look out. Unfortunately he was just in time to see the dopr of 509 o#en and disclose us We hurried Into 511 and shut the door. Kennedy mounted a chair and ap­ plied his eye to the detectascope. Just then Mary and Elaine entered the next room, Mary opening the door with a regular key. "Won't you step In?" she asked. Elaine did so and Mary hesitated In the hall. Wong Sin had slipped out On noiseless feet and taken ref­ uge behind some curtains. As he saw her alone, he beckoned, to. Mary. "There's a stranger in the next ,room," he whispared. "I don't like him. Take the money and as quickly es possible get out and go to my apartment." > At the news that there was a sus­ picious stranger about Mary showed great alarm. Everything was so rap­ id now that the slightest hesitation meant disaster. Perhaps by quick­ ness even a suspicious stranger could be fooled, she reasoned. At any rate, JSfong Sin was resourceful. She had better trust him. Mary followed Elaine Into the room, where she had seated herself already, and locked the door. "Have you the money there?" she asked. "Yes," nodded Elaine, taking out the package of bills which she had got from the bank during the half-hour delay. All this we could see by gazing al­ ternately through the detectascope. Elaine handed Mary the money. Mary counted It slowly. At last she looked up. "It's all right," she said. "Now, I'll take this to that tong leader. He's in a room only Just across the hall." She went out. Mary had just succeeded In getting on the elevator as Kennedy. hurried down the hall. The door was closed and the car descended. He rang the push bell furiously, but there watf? no answer. . He dashed back to the room with us and jerked the telephone receiver. "Hello--hello--hello!" he called. There seemed to be no way to get a connection. What was the mat­ ter? He hurried down the hall again. Down in the hotel lobby, with hill follower, |be Chinaman paused before the telephone switchboard, where two girls were at work. "You may go," ordered Wong, and, as his man left, he moved over close to the switchboard." Just as a call from 509 flashed up Wong slipped the rings off his little fingers and loosened the white rati 04 the telephone switchboard itself. With a shriek the telephone system of the Coste went temporarily out of business.' Kennedy had succeeded In finding the alcove of the floor clerk in charge of the fifth floor. There on his desk was an instrument having a stylus on the end of two arms, connected to a system of magnets. It was a telautO' graph. Unceremoniously Craig pushed th« clerk out of his seat and sat down himself. It was a last chance, now that the telephone was out of com­ mission. Downstairs in the hotel office, where the excitement had not spread to ev­ ery one, was the other end of the elec­ tric long-distance writer. It started to write, as Kennedy wrote, upstairs: "House Detective--quick--hold worn an with blue chatelaine bag, getting out of elevator." The clerks downstairs saw It and shouted above the din of the rat-bait lng: » "McCann--McCann!" The clerk had torn off the message from the telautograph register and handed it to the house man, who pushed his way to the desk. Quickly the detective called to th« bell-hops. Together they hurried af­ ter the well-dressed woman who had just Byrept out of the elevator. Marf had already passed through the e* cited lobby and out, and was about to cross the street--safe. McCann and the bell-hops were no* in full cry after her. Flight was use less. She took refuge in indignation and threats. But McCann was obdurate. She passed quickly to tears and pleadings. It had no effect They insisted on leading her back. The game was up. "Here," cried Kennedy, "take her up in the elevator. I'll prove the oase." • * * * . • • • "Now--not a word of who she is in the papers, McCann," Kennedy con­ cluded, referring to Elaine. "You know, it wouldn't sound well for the La Coste. As for that woman--well, I've got the money back. You can take her off--make the charge." As the house man left with Mary I handed Craig his bag. We moved to­ ward the door, and as we stood there a moment with Elaine, he quietly hand­ ed over to her the big roll of money. If he had been less of a scientist, he might have understood the took on her face, but. with a nod to me, he turned and went As she looked first at him, then at the paltry ten thousand in her hand, Elaine stamped her little foot in vex­ ation. "I'm glad I didn't V say anything more," she cried. "No--no--h^jJ^l beg my parden first--there!" \ ^ (TO BE CONTINUED.) ^ chased and captured by an officer. After the entire program had been j shown Willie's mother said: "Come, | Willie, we must be going." «. Looking I up into her face in a pleading way, Willie said: "Mamma, won't you j please wait until we see that tramp picture again." "Why do you wish to see it again?" asked his mother. "Bo cause," replied Willie, in a sympa­ thetic tone, "I want to see it that poor, hungry tramp can't manage to git away from that mean coy this time."?--Moving Picture Stories. 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Farmers should sow Sudan grass as it makes a splendid forage. See ad In another part of this paper.--Adv. 'Another thing sadly needed by the men is a hose supporter that will shun notoriety. Florida Lands For Sale to Settlers In tracts of ten acres and up­ wards, in Volusia County, •adapted to cultivation of citrus fruits, vegetables of all kinds and general crops. Situation healthful. Send for circulars. Write in English. Railroad runs through tract. Will sell on month­ ly payments Agents wanted. Address Florida Land & Settlement Co. Care Alex. St. Clair-Abrams, Attorney 615-19 Dyal-Upchurch BIdg., Jacksonville, Flfc Don't Persecute Your Bowels Cut out cathartics and purgatives. Thagr an brutal, harsh, unnecessary. Trj ̂ CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Purely vegetable. Act gently on the liver, eliminate bile, and„ ' soothe the delicate^ membrane of the^ bowel. Cure,, Csnsti ration, Blliousnets, Sick Head* . . achs and Indifestioa. as millions know. 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